Welcome to Week 34. What an amazing day of service...Mt. Hood Climb Service Day was a great success, thanks to Jenny Cleveland’s zeal and super organizational support.  It was a delight to walk around the Beginning and Lower School and see many hands and hearts doing great work.  Many thanks to you all.

Meetings and Events

DATE	EVENTS	LOCATION
Mon., May 14th through May 18th 8:15 Blake, 9 Schilling, 9:50 Griffin 3:15	5th Grade Off to Camp Hancock Carmen’s Spanish Informances AS Faculty Meeting: Episcopal Nature of OES	Fossil, OR Second Grade Classrooms Dining Hall
Thurs., May 17th, 7:30-8:30 9 Sterling, 9:40 Hunger, 2 Mounsey LSCTF, 3:15 - 4:15	LS Faculty Meeting Carmen’s Third Grade Informances	DVR 3rd Grade Classrooms Chris Thompson’s Room
Fri., May 18th	PAL: Summer Suggestions from Ari, Lara, Angela and Joan Lowe	LS Common Hall
5/18 Friday’s Field Trips 9am 9:15 2:00	First Grade Farm Trip Second Grade Trip Fifth Grade Returns from Camp Hancock	Zenger Farm Chinese Garden LS
Saturday, May 19, 10:00	Retirement Brunch	Dining Hall
Mon., May 21st, 3:15	Mary and Ari’s Baby Shower	LS Library

COMMUNITY

It Is Official: One more month of school to go!
•Schedule Bridging Visits with the Grade Above
See items below!

Fifth Graders Off to Camp Hancock
•Sign up to cover duties- everyone needs to help out!
•Thanks to those of you who are going on the trip...and thanks to those of you who are covering for those kind campers/faculty who are helping out teachers and students this week.

LS Leadership Team
We did not meet last week. Placement meeting took place instead.

PROGRAM

All Lower School Faculty Meeting
5/17/2012    

7:30:00    Appreciations

      7:40:00    Seismic Work update
       7:50:00    Reports - Process
       8:10:00    Summer Programs
       8:20:00    Announcements
                         Students not returning
                         Learning Celebrations
                        Stipends

LSCTF
5/3/2012

Curriculum Change

Stipend Requests

Student Work to Next Teacher

Self Study Wrap Up

Echos Writing Celebration
The deadline for students to submit written work has been extended to this Friday, 5/18.  If students are submitted works via Google Docs they should send them to reesr@go.oes.edu. Thank you to the Echoes students fro their support of our students writing.


OPERATIONS

Seizmic Upgrades
See the Google doc with all of the info...how to pack up, timing, work to be done

Budget Wrap Up
Be sure to read Lyn’s email from last week on how to wrap up your budget for the year.

Maintenance Requests
They are a week over due, but if you want to squeak one in past the deadline you may.  We need to get these to Jon and Darele asap.

Supervision of Beginning School Students

Playground
One duty teacher stands at the door when a child/two children are using the bathroom

Office
One buddy who sits in one of the office chairs, waiting for the friend to use the rest room

Special Classes
•Encourage all children use the bathroom before special classes
•Consider having music in the BS classes- long walk, issues when children need to use bathrooms (Kristen, talk with the BS teachers)
•PE- send two children as escorts who stand outside of the bathroom while class mates uses the rest room

EC
Same as above.

Safety
With all of the events that happen here in the spring, we have an increasing number of visitors to our campus. In order to keep our students safe, there are three key things all of us can do:
1.       Please be sure to identify yourself as someone who works here. Please wear your photo name tags at all times.
2.       Be sure that classroom visitors and volunteers check in with either Arleene or your divisional office to get (and wear) a visitor ID. If you see a visitor inside school buildings without a visitor tag, please ask them to get a tag.
3.       If you see someone wandering around looking lost, please ask them if you can direct them to a destination.

May 15th Fire Department crew tour
The plan is for three fire companies to tour our campus.
This means, fire trucks on campus and the fire crews will walk our campus.
The morning of the 15th works for a tour. He didn’t specify what their goal was but my guess is to become more familiar with the layout of the campus, fire department access, sprinkler riser rooms, or any high hazard buildings.